Test 8 · ★★ · First aid and safety

Why is a crossing safer than running between parked cars?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crossing · What happens: be, run, park · To what, where: parked cars

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 39 «First aid and safety» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 safer	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crossing	det
4	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 safer	nsubj
5	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 running	mark
7	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 safer	advcl
8	between	between	ADP	_	10 cars	case
9	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cars	amod
10	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 running	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 safer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a crossing		safe property	tree rules
2	run	gerund	a crossing not said here	parked cars		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between car=Trajectory
3	park	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cars are not allowed on any road with a crossing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 allowed	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 crossing	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 crossing	det
10	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 road	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Cars		any road with a crossing			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 2

Running is safer than walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 safer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safer	cop
3	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	5 walking	mark
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 safer	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	run	gerund		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	safe property	tree rules
3	walk	gerund		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Parked cars always move away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cars	amod
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 move	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	park	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	move away	present	Parked cars					always, away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Drivers expect people there and can see them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 expect	nsubj
2	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 expect	obj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 expect	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 expect	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	present	Drivers	people		there			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	see	can	Drivers not said here	people					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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